• Someone once said
    'Differences make us stronger'
    But as I stand here...
    I cannot help but doubt.

    Trapped in a world
    Of people all the same,
    A stereotype of race...
    I know my individuality.

    No more than skin-deep,
    It shows.
    And so I am afraid...
    A protective paralysis.

    It tightens its grasp -
    A thin lithium wire,
    Wrapped around my throat...
    Snaring my words.

    So I keep them in,
    Never speaking for
    Rejection is an obsidian void...
    And I would be trapped if I did.

    So I remember how someone once said
    'Differences make us stronger'
    And as I stand here before you,
    I give in to the terror...

    My silver eyes stare
    Into a mass of orbs of jet,
    And so the words don't come...
    For you forever laugh at me...

    The odd one,
    The one silver-eyed,
    In a race all akin...
    I can never fit in.

    So I hold my words inside,
    Clutch them deep within,
    Looking away from your cruel gaze...
    I can't help but give in.